mid 2025 reading list

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I have to read more. And I have to update this blog more. Here's to killing two birds with one stone.

In no particular order:
1. Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
2. Donella H. Meadows - Thinking in Systems
3. Joseph Konrad - Heart of Darkness
4. Ernst Jünger - Storm of Steel
5. Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
6. Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
7. Michel Foucault - History of Sexuality (a professor told me to read this nearly a year ago and I never got around to it)
8. Herman Melville - Moby Dick
9. Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal (in the original French!!!! no excuses.)
10. Procopius - The Secret History
11. Bertrand Russell - In Praise of Idleness
12. Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
13. The Bible (not a Christian just interested in theology)
14. Voltaire - Candide (IN THE ORIGINAL FRENCH!!!!! I gave up reading this last year but I'll brute force my way through it this year)
15. Alexis de Toqueville - Democracy in America (doesn't have to be in the original French. There's a limit to my patience.)
16. Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
17. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales